Word: uprootedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The ultimately puzzling problem is that there are perhaps untold numbers of alienated Americans who have lost the race for prestige and success, who have had unhappy childhoods, who are uprooted geographically and morally?and who would not think of shooting the President or anyone else. When does the malcontent...
What made the "discreet charm" of Czech films of the 1960s in the West was a certain atmosphere, their simplicity in the observation of everyday life, of ordinary people, a subtle sense of humor combined sometimes with social satire. This required a deep and almost subconscious knowledge of a place...
The first refugees to reach the U.S. came largely from Viet Nam's professional classes-doctors, dentists, lawyers, office workers, military officers, and their families. Said one U.S. Army doctor at the refugee center on Guam: "They were the VIPS, the cream of the crop, all first-class passengers...
In large measure the refugee tide could not be explained in such rational terms. "It was hard to say what started it," said a Catholic priest who had escaped from one of the suddenly lost provinces of South Viet Nam, "but panic set off panic." The flight seemed to overtake...
His fleeting contact with Shura, the young woman apparently uprooted and travelling aimlessly, with whom he falls in love, is his first deep emotional involvement. Her sense of the hopelessness of their situation, perhaps of their entire country, is contrasted with his seeming self-confidence in a poignant way.